24 HOURS after issuing a warning to individuals and organisation carrying out private constructions on public and govt lands, the Kano State governor-elect, Abba Yusuf, has issued another advisory to domestic and international lenders.
News Point Nigeria reports that, the governor-elect, in a statement by his spokesman, Sanusi Dawakin-Tofa, warn lenders not to give loans to the outgoing Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje without the consent of the incoming administration.
He said whoever gives such facility to the outgoing administration does so at his/her own risk as his administration would not honour such loan.
The statement reads in full:
PUBLIC DEBT SUSPENSION ADVISORY
The Governor-Elect of Kano State His Excellency Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf has directed that this Public Advisory be issued to all subsisting and prospective lenders to the Kano State Government viz.:
Effective from March 18 to May 29, no lender (domestic or international) shall approve and issue any loan facility to Kano State Government without the express consent of the incoming administration;
Any such loan facility approved and issued to the Kano State Government between the date of election and the date of swearing-in without explicit knowledge and consent of the incoming administration will not be honoured by the new administration;
All subsisting lenders to the Kano State Government shall take notice that all terms and conditions for all existing loan facilities shall be renegotiated by the new administration guided by the utilization audit/review of each loan facility.
This advisory is made in the public interest, please.
Signed
SANUSI BATURE DAWAKIN TOFA
Chief Press Secretary
FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNOR-ELECT